Simple syntax table stuff

Simple syntax table stuff

[thorne]

Hello.  I would like to be able to font-lock strings in a text-mode
type buffer.  I have figured out i can do this:

(defun fontify-strings ()
  "Add font-lock to double-quoted strings in the current buffer."
  (interactive)
  (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "\"")
  (font-lock-fontify-buffer))

Which does work, but it is permanant--i don't know how to write code
to turn the feature off.  Is there a way to do that (i assume there
must be)?

Also, is there a way to define comment delimiters in syntax such that
a character is a comment start if and only if it is in column 1?

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Re: Simple syntax table stuff

[David Hansen]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:21:45 -0700 thorne wrote:

> Hello.  I would like to be able to font-lock strings in a text-mode
> type buffer.  I have figured out i can do this:
>
> (defun fontify-strings ()
>   "Add font-lock to double-quoted strings in the current buffer."
>   (interactive)
>   (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "\"")
>   (font-lock-fontify-buffer))
>
> Which does work, but it is permanant--i don't know how to write code
> to turn the feature off.  Is there a way to do that (i assume there
> must be)?

Turn off font-lock-mode or change the syntax back to punctuation.
Maybe it's not a bad idea to define some new major mode (probably
via `define-derived-mode') which just changes the syntax-table entry.

> Also, is there a way to define comment delimiters in syntax such that
> a character is a comment start if and only if it is in column 1?

Use `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'.

David